What are you supposed to be doing right now at work?

I am listening to a webinar on giving performance reviews.

Dan Lamb wrote: I am listening to a webinar on giving performance reviews.

Corporate training is the worse. I have to watch 145 slides on sexual harassment.

Preparing questions for a live video link with Virgin Galactic staff and pilots.

Scheduling a work trip to Springfield, MO in a few weeks to meet with execs on one of my accounts. Also working with the developers on the Forecasting module revamp for our software.

I'm finally getting traction on the modified PS Renewal report for Brad. We met about this back in November and the notes I took were impenetrable, even to me. But I think I've deciphered them and am getting what he wants. I came up with a clever way (if I say so myself) of displaying the previous PS status. Problem will be adding this info to the current report, as it's going to triple the number of categories a renewal can fall into (B2B/B2C, Eventual vs Immediate, and now Plus->PS/PS->Plus/No Change/First -- shit, that's quadruple, not triple) so he and I have to meet on that.

I also became a big hero on Monday by knowing about linux's cron command unlike, apparently, everyone in sysadmin, which will enable us to do something they were saying was impossible. Actually, they're not stupid, just lazy and worthless and didn't feel like doing it so they said it couldn't be done. I hate dealing with that bunch.

And finally, Oracle kicked a ticket to us, saying it was a Data Warehouse issue, when ten minutes of research showed the problem was caused by an erroneous customer merge on the Oracle side. Do your own fucking work, Oracle.

I'm not at work right now, but I promised myself that I would read up on internal controls tonight. I have spent most of the first two weeks at my new job setting up the accounting for a recent acquisition, so tomorrow will be my first day learning the accounting software used by the core business. The training will be lengthy because I will need to back up every accounting function. Since I will be supervising the controller, I ought to be assessing the internal controls while I learn their system. It appears that the controller is doing a solid job, but she is taking too long to close the books each month.

saving lives (tick) and supposedly trolling craniac (tick?) and imagining black Barney in lingerie
multi fucking talented.

Writing psychological reports. On a Friday afternoon. Can't. . .seem. . .to. . .focus. . .

Legomancer wrote: I also became a big hero on Monday by knowing about linux's cron command unlike, apparently, everyone in sysadmin, which will enable us to do something they were saying was impossible. Actually, they're not stupid, just lazy and worthless and didn't feel like doing it so they said it couldn't be done. I hate dealing with that bunch.

And finally, Oracle kicked a ticket to us, saying it was a Data Warehouse issue, when ten minutes of research showed the problem was caused by an erroneous customer merge on the Oracle side. Do your own fucking work, Oracle.

Not at all surprised about the Oracle ping pong. They're shitbags.

But linux sysadmins not knowing cron? Who are these guys?

Frohike wrote:

Legomancer wrote: I also became a big hero on Monday by knowing about linux's cron command unlike, apparently, everyone in sysadmin, which will enable us to do something they were saying was impossible. Actually, they're not stupid, just lazy and worthless and didn't feel like doing it so they said it couldn't be done. I hate dealing with that bunch.

And finally, Oracle kicked a ticket to us, saying it was a Data Warehouse issue, when ten minutes of research showed the problem was caused by an erroneous customer merge on the Oracle side. Do your own fucking work, Oracle.

Not at all surprised about the Oracle ping pong. They're shitbags.

But linux sysadmins not knowing cron? Who are these guys?

Also shitbags.

I was sent home due to weather. It was snowing a flake half an hour ago, coming down in buckets now. Came on super-fast and I'd wager some people are getting caught off-guard, figuring they'd have an hour to head home once they saw it start.

I left my office door open and fell asleep in my chair with the headphones on. The office admin called because someone thought I was dead, but mostly to mock me.

Space Hulk 2009 edition showed up. It weights eight pounds without the miniatures.

Shoveling the sidewalks in front of the bars...

Writing a VBA app for Excel because the owners have never paid anyone commission, so their order entry/accounting system doesn't calculate it, or even have a field for "salesman". And, of course, the douchenozzle who created their system has data in hex (who the fuck uses HEX anymore) so I can't just pull data from the database, it has to be manually entered at the time of PO.

FUUUCK.

I'm a commodoties purchasing manager, not a damned programmer anymore. THIS is why I chose sales over IT.